6 PTlOCKETirNGS OF THE 



February 7th, 1884. 



Sir John Lubbock, Bart., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Henry Groves, Esq., of Florence, and Frederick Lovell Keays, 

 Esq., of Cobham, were elected Fellows. 



The Vacancies in the list of Foreign Members having been 

 announced, by the deaths of Prof. Oswald Heer, Dr. W. C. H. 

 Peters, and Prof. Hermann Sclilegel, the following Nominations 

 Avere made, and the Certificates ordered to be suspended : — 



EuNEST Haeckel, M.D., Professor of Zoology, and Director of 

 the Zoological Institute and of the Zoological Museum of the 

 University of Jena. 



Dr. Alexander Kowai^evsky, Professor and Director of the 

 Zootomical Cabinet, and Custodian of the Zoological Menagerie 

 of the University of Odessa. 



Dr. S. ScHWENDENEE, Profcssor of Vegetable Anatomy and 

 Physiology, Director of the Botanical Institute, and of the Bo- 

 tanic Garden of the University of Berlin. 



Mr. F. 0. Bower showed specimens of the leaf of Tomiea 

 Menzicsii, with adventitious buds situated at the base of the 

 lamina. These buds appear at the same point in all the leaves, 

 and under normal circumstances, so that their development seems 

 to be a constant character of the species. Their origin is exo- 

 genous, and the buds are found already present at tlie ])eriod 

 when lignification of the xylem of tlie young vascular bundles be- 

 gins. Mr. Bower compared this development with that already 

 known in Cardctmine pratensis and AtJiyrurtts ternatns, &c. 



There was exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Arthur C. Cole, a box 

 containing mounted preparations illustrative of his ' Studies in 

 Microscopic Science,' a work devoted to Animal and Vege- 

 table Histology, now being issued in parts. 



Mr. B. T. Lowne exhibited a series of specimens under the 

 microscope, and original drawings, illustrating his researches on 

 Compound Vision in Insects. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " Note on the Gemmae of Aulacomnion palustre.^^ By 

 F. 0. Bower, F.L.S. 



2. " On Eecent Ephemeridae or May-Flies." — Part II. By 

 the Eev. A. E. Eaton. (Communicated by Sir J. Lubbock, 

 Bart., Pres.L.S.) 



3. "Besearches on the Compound Vision of Insects." By 

 Benjamin T. Lowne, F.L.S. 



4. " European and North-Atlantic Crustacea." By the Eev. 

 A. M. Norman, F.L.S. 



